On Tue, Sep 4, 2007 at 09:24:33 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I see no indication in Debian Policy that comments are permitted in > control files. I'm happy to change Policy and then the lintian check if > they truly are, but I'd need confirmation from everything significant that > parses control files (which is more than just dpkg-buildpackage). > > My guess is that software is currently recognizing those as valid but > unknown control fields. > Does anything other than dpkg-dev need to parse debian/control files (in source packages)? This is bug#191810 in dpkg-dev, FWIW, so it's supported since 2003. Cheers, Julien
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